Flooded Turkey braces for more rain

Residents in low-lying areas urged to move as more rains forecast.

11 Sep 2009 03:20 GMT

Turkey's prime minister has described the flooding as the 'disaster of the century' [AFP]

"There's so much to clean up ... so much damage to infrastructure ... it's not going to be done until this current weather pattern that has menaced the western part of the city so substantially has actually passed," she said.

Looting problems

She added that looting of evacuated houses was a problem "almost immediately".